The Protective Effect of Education on Cognition: Results from the MHAS 2001 and 2012.

Dr. Díaz-Venegas was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico where he earned a B.A. in Economics from ITESM in December 2005. A year later, he moved to the United States where he earned a M.S. in Demography from Florida State University in July 2007. He then pursued a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, earning it in May 2012.

After completing his studies, Dr. Díaz-Venegas began working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and in 2015 moved to Rostock, Germany to become a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, position he currently holds.

His main research interests are health and aging. His previous work has examined topics such as the socioeconomic determinants of disability and cognition in both Mexico and the US. He has used large data sets such as the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to study how these determinants interact over the life course to change physical and mental well-being in the elderly. His current and future work looks to further expand these topics to cast attention on issues of health and aging in developing countries such as Mexico.

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The Protective Effect of Education on Cognition: Results from the MHAS 2001 and 2012.

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The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has fostered research and training in population since 1962, with support from the NICHD P30 program from 1978-2003 and the R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program since 2003. Our goal is to remain a national and world leader in research on the growth and structure of human populations and on the role of socioeconomic stratification and human and social diversity on the health of populations. The PSC is characterized by strong continuity in the production of high-quality research on demography, population-based studies of health and human development, and behavioral and social science approaches to sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive health. READ MORE